Guardian Druid Leveling Guide
Guardian Druid Leveling Guide
11.0.7 - The War Within
Last Updated:December 17, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Guardian Druid leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
It is highly recommended to level as Balance Druid!
Talents
Destruction Warlock
Elune's Chosen Level 70
Spec Tree
- Dream of Cenarius
- The proc provides nice self healing when running between packs.
- Twin Moonfire
- Moonfire now applies on an additional target.
- Thorns of Iron
- With this talent Ironfur becomes your main rage spender.
Class Tree
- Stampeding Roar + Improved Stampeding Roar
- Provides you with a 1 minute cooldown for a 70% movement speed increase for 8 seconds.
- Heart of the Wild
- Boosts your Moonfire damage when active.
- Astral Influence
- 5 yards more ranged on your spells to pull enemies.
Hero Talents
- Elune's Chosen provides huge arcane damage increases which is your main damage source when leveling. While also giving you access to Lunar Beam another big damage cooldown on AoE.
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Elune's Chosen as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Lunar Insight
- Pick Atmospheric Exposure
- Pick The Light of Elune
- Pick The Eternal Moon
- Pick Moon Guardian
- Pick Lunar Amplification
- Pick Lunar Calling
- Pick Glistening Fur
- Pick Moondust
- Pick Lunation
Rotation
Destruction Warlock
Single-Target
- Pull with Moonfire since it is now 45 yards ranged thanks to Astral Influence.
- Always keep up Moonfire on the target.
- Don't overcap on Rage spent it on Ironfur.
- Use Lunar Beam and Rage of the Sleeper as often as possible.
AoE
- You want to pull as many mobs as possible as a tank and just AoE them down.
- Pull with Moonfire as many enemies as possible.
- When stacked up cast Lunar Beam.
- Don't overcap on Rage spent it on Ironfur.
- Consume your Tooth and Claw procs on Raze in AoE.
- Use Heart of the Wild whenever ready.
Shopping List
Destruction Warlock
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Meeres
Reviewed by: Rycn